Question

What are exhaustible resources and how are they different from inexhaustible resources

Answer 1

They can be exhausted by human activities. Resources of which a finite quantity is in existence. Oil and gas are exhaustible and be all sucked up and burnt up. A natural resource that cannot be increased by the natural forces of the environment is called exhaustible natural resources.

On the other hand inexhaustible resources will not extinguish.

Answer 2

exhaustible resources are those resources which cannot be replaced once they are used e. g coal, natural gas, aluminum, iron, copper, thorium, uranium etc. we can apply various latest techniques to extract every bit of valuable are , but cannot replace the minerals while as inexhaustible resources are those resources which are renewed by reproduction or by physical, mechanical or chemical processes.